End bracing for cars.



,PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

H. W. WOLPF.

END'BRAGING FOR CARS.

AI PLIGATION FILED MAY 12. 1906.

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each of which is HERBERT W. VVOLFF, OF ST. LQUIS,

urn sra rps rngrnrrr MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO AMERlCAN CAR 8: FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF LOUIS, MlSSOURi, A. CQRPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

END BRACBNG Foe case.

Patented July 31, icon.

Application filed May 12, 190B. Eierial No. 316,501.

others skilled in the 'art'to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to .the accompanying drawings,

forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the end of a car provided with my improved end brace. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on a line above the transverselyextending brace.

other form of my invention, and Fig. 6 shows modified form. of end stake.

This invention relates to the construction of cars, particularly to that known as gondola cars.

The object of my invention is to provide a car having end walls which will not bulge outwardly when they are subjected to great strain; and to this'end my invention consists in a novel end-wall brace which securely ties the side walls of the car to the end walls and impartsgreat rigidity to said end wall.

- Referring 'to the drawings, which represent the preferred form of my invention, 1 and 2 designate, respectively, the end wall and the side walls of a gondola car, said walls being provided at their upper edges with angles 3, such as cars of this type are usually provided with. Located near the center of the end wall are two vertically-extending stakes 4,

substantially channelshaped throughout its length, the inner leg 5 of the channel lying against the end wall of the car and the outer leg 6 of the channel converging from the center of the stake toward the inner leg, so as to contact with the same at the lower endof the stairs, said legs at the point where they contact with each other belng'bent outwardly and connected. to the end 'S1ll 7 or the'car. As shown in the drawings,

the legs of the channel are of unequal length, and the web of the channel is of gi eatesuwidth at the central portion of the stake," the outer leg also converging toward the inner leg toward the upper end of the stake, but not contacting with the same. Preferably the inner legs of the channels are connected to the end wall of the car by rivets 8.

Extending transversely across the end of the car is a brace 9, which in the preferred form of my invention, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, consists of an angle, said brace being bent around the side walls of the car and con-.

nected thereto by rivets 10, the vertical leg of the angle being connected to the outer leg of the channel-shaped stake by rivets 11, and preferably to the end wall by rivets 12.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided anend-wall brace 1 consisting practically of a truss that absolutely prevents the end wall of the car from bulging and also securely ties said wall tothe side Walls of the car, the end Wall of the car acting as the compression member, the brace 9 as the tension member, and the end stakes as the struts.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown modified forms of my invention in which the trans versely-exteuding brace is shown, respe c-' tively, as a channel and as a fiat plate, and in Fig. 6 I have shown'a' modified form of end stake. This stake is also of channel form; but the outer leg 6 of thechannel converges towaid the inner leg 5 and contacts with the same at the upper end of the stake, the cohtacting portions or" said legs being bent outwardly and connected by rivets to the angle 3 at the upper edge of the end wall of the car. The lower end of said stake is fastened to the end sill 7' of the car by an angular bracket 14.

While I have herein shown the end wall of the car as being provided with an angle 3 at its upper edge, it will of course be understood that the upper edge of said wall could be provided with an integral flange without departing from the scope of my invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. An end truss for cars consisting of a tencar, and a strut cooperatingwithfsaid brace,

said strut consisting of a ehannel shaped member which diminishes in width from its center toward its opposite ends; substantially as described.

end truss for cars comprising a tension-brace extending across the end of the car, and a strut comprising a vertically-disposed channel having its legs or flanges converging at its lower end and bent at an angle to the body portion thereof; substantially as described.

4. An end truss for cars comprising a tension-brace extending across the end of the car, and a strut comprising a vertically-disposed channel having its lower end bent outwardly and connected to the end sill of the car substantially as described.

5. Means for bracing the end of a car comprising a channelshaped end stake having its lower end bent at an angle to the body portion thereof, fastening devices passing through the bent portion of said stake, and a transversely-extending brace connected adjacent to its ends to the end wall of the car;

' substantially as described.

6. Means for bracing the end of a car comprising a channel-shaped end stake having its lower end bent at an angle to the body portion thereof, fastening devices passing through the bent portion of said stake, and a transversely-extending brace connected to the side walls of the car; substantially'as described.

7. Means for bracing the end of a car comprising a channel -shaped end stake having its lower end bent at an angle to the body portion thereof, fastening devices passing through the bent portion of said stake, and a transversely-extending brace connected to the side and end walls of the car and to said stake; substantially as described.

8. A truss for bracing the end wall of a car consisting of a tension member and a strut comprising an end stake of substantially channel shape having its legs of unequal length, the web portion of said channel di minishing in width from the central portion of the stake toward its lower end, and the legs of the channel at the lower end of the stake contacting with each other and being bent at an angle to the body portion of the stake; substantially as described.

.9. A car com rising an end wall, an end sill, an end sta e of substantially channel shape having one of its legs lying against said end'wall, the lower end of said stake being bent at an angle to the bod portion thereof and connected to the end sil and a brace GK-r tending from side to side of the car and engaging the outer face of said stake; substantially as described.

10. A car comprising an end wall, an end sill, an end stake of substantially channel shape having one of its legs lying against said end wall, the lower end of said stake being bent at an angle to the body portion thereof and connected to the end sill, and a trans versely-extending brace connected to the side walls of the car and to the outer face of said stake; substantially as described.

. 11. A car provided with side walls, an end wall and an end sill, a lurality of end stakes having their lower ends bent at an angle to the bodyportions thereof and connected to the end sill, and a transversely-extending brace comprising an angle which is connected. to the side walls of the car and to said end stakes; substantially as described.

12. Means for bracing the end wall of a cal comprising a substantially channel-shaped end stake in which the legs contact with each other at the lower end of the stake. and are bent at an angle to the body portion of the stake, and a transversely-extending brace engaging the outer face of's'aid stake'and be: ing connected at its opposite ends to 1 tions of the car substantially as described. 13. An end truss for'cars comprising a ten-=- sion-brace extendingacross the end of the at one end of the strut and bent at an angle.

to the body portion of the strut, and fasten= 'ingdevices connecting said bentportion of the strut to a part of the ear substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses,

this 10th day of May, 1906.

HERBERT w. WQLFF.

Witnesses:

WELLS L. CHURCH, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

